Hyde & Closer

An important element of Hyde and Closer, cursed dolls are a form of magic created when a magic talisman is placed inside an inanimate object, which brings it to life. The doll possesses its own personality and follows the commands and instructions of its master. A cursed doll is powered by the magic given to it by its master and can even perform magic all by itself. Dolls also grow weaker the farther they are from their master; thus dolls that are close to their masters are far stronger. When a curse doll is destroyed, its creator suffers backlash that takes various forms (one magician was killed by bad luck, another suddenly suffered appendicitis). Despite what the name implies, cursed dolls do not have to strictly be dolls, as there have been stuffed animals, jack-in-the-boxes, and shadow puppets.

Magic devices are handcrafted devices that are used to focus magical power and act as a medium. They are disguised as everyday objects like cell-phones and pies. Magical devices are essential as no matter how powerful a magic user is, a device allows for its user to be better prepared and equipped for battle. Devices have been shown to be capable of many different functions from making someone fall in love to controlling the weather.

Resentment is the world's oldest device created after a series of coincidences. It was laid by a chicken who had a hard life and tended by a little girl with an abusive father in Africa. She made herself feel better by saying that she would put all her sadness, anger, and bad feelings into the egg and when it hatched it would be her good luck charm. What even she didn't know was that she could use magic and it made her words real. For countless years, the egg has been absorbing all the negative and evil emotions of humanity, becoming colossal in size and power. Alsyd Closer has stated that if it hatches now, the world will end. Resentment is the main reason for what is happening in the series. The Watcher in the Window wants it to destroy humanity, but Alsyd's barrier is preventing him from getting it. So Watchman is attacking Shunpei to lure his grandfather out.

Closer Shunpei (黒兎 春瓶, Shunpei Kurōzā) is a 13-year-old timid teenager. Shunpei has spiky black hair and blue eyes. He wears a as-yet-explained necklace that holds what seems to be a half light blue, and half dark blue Magatama. Shunpei is harshly looked down upon by his classmates every day, as he seems to have no special abilities and messes up at everything. In chapter 2, Shunpei uses magic for the first time. And in chapter 3, Shunpei is told by Hyde that Shunpei needs to be able to learn more magic because of the fact that protecting Shunpei, and fighting an enemy is very hard since both of them are fighting stronger enemies as the story goes on.[3] Shunpei, at first, strongly believes that he can't do anything, but when Hyde came along and corrected him, Shunpei began to think otherwise. Hyde states in chapter 4 that Shunpei has the potential to become a very strong magician. Otherwise, Hyde would've stopped hanging around Shunpei a long time ago.[4] In later chapters, Shunpei has shown bravery when in battles with other magic-users. For instance, in chapter eleven, Shunpei, and Uryuu had to use umbrellas to block the light from some overhead lights to give Hyde the advantage against a battle with a Shadow user, (He stabs other people's shadows using his own shadow) but the last light was too far to be able to hang the umbrella over it. But seeing as Hyde had the chance of losing, and dying, Shunpei gathered up his courage, and jumped to the headlight, and successfully blocked the light, leaving Hyde to finish off his opponent.[5] Another example of how Shunpei has changed since Hyde entered his life was in chapter twenty one, where Shunpei was determined to control an item he had received. Shunpei and Hyde were attacked by what looked to be a giant, and although Hyde attempted to help, Shunpei asked to fight alone and eventually Shunpei won the battle.[6][7]

Magic:

Barrier: the most basic spell, it follows the rule of not allowing anything within a certain area without the caster's permission. Once this spell is mastered, more complex spells aren’t too far behind. Shunpei can perform it without an incantation, something that is very hard to pull off.

Meifu-606:[8] Shunpei gains a magical item, and in chapter 20, trains to control it. The Meifu-606 looks, and acts like a Cell Phone, and has a decorative heart on it. The Meifu-606 stores or 'catches' any attack from an opponent, and releases it when desired by Shunpei. Although using it took several days of practice, Shunpei finally controls it in chapter twenty-one.[9]

Sky: Shunpei gets this magic device to help him defeat the President of Hypertoy. It appears as a scarf, but when activated it turns into a pair of wings that helps Shun to fly.

Phantom Shunpei gets this device from Pacqwa to defeat the president of Hypertoy. It creates illusions to inflict upon the enemy but can only be used once.

Hyde (ハイド, Haido) is a teddy bear that was given to Shunpei on his 7th birthday. Hyde had not shown any reaction until an enemy attempts to assassinate Shunpei. Hyde addresses Shunpei as either "Shun", or "Shun boy", just like Alsyd, probably because of Alsyd's magic in Hyde himself. Hyde is calm when outside of battle, and puts on a blank face that shows no emotion, like a normal teddy bear. He seems to be nice to Shunpei and his mother. Hyde states that he thinks that Shun has potential, only he needs to toughen up a bit. Hyde is the one who has been proving Shunpei wrong when Shunpei thought of himself as weak and cowardly. In his back, he holds a chainsaw named the Texas Chainsaw. Oddly, the chainsaw stands about twice as tall as Hyde himself, but can easily fit inside Hyde. When he fights, he normally gets an evil grin on his face, showing he might enjoy the idea of getting rid of the doll and thereby getting rid of the user; when he uses his Texas Chainsaw, his face becomes shadowed over, making his grin appear more cruel. Hyde always has a chocolate cigar in his mouth, except when he is being carried around by Shunpei. Besides the Texas Chainsaw, Hyde shows superhuman strength in chapter six when he throws a full sized locker through a window. In chapter seven, Shindou reveals that Hyde's magical power is different from those of a normal magical doll, and reveals that Hyde has a limited amount of magical power in his body, that he is keeping a secret from Shunpei. In chapter twenty-seven, Hyde himself states that he does not have much time left, and the magical power within him is limited. A bit of Hyde's past is also revealed in this chapter, showing that Hyde was originally a parting gift from the father of Marco when he lived seventy years ago, before the events of Magic Ban Removal. Unfortunately, soon after receiving Hyde, Marco was killed in his apartment in the middle of an air raid of his town, and, with his last few moments, dropped Hyde from the window in hopes that he would survive (let it be noted that at the time Hyde was nothing more than a bear, but Marco treated Hyde like a younger brother). It was six years before the start of the story that Alsyd found Hyde in the display of a merchant and, for whatever reason, knew about what the bear went through, bought Hyde and charged him with protecting Shunpei. Additionally, despite the fact that he was inanimate then, Hyde is still able to remember Marco.[10]

Magic:

Texas Chainsaw: a very large, demonic-looking chainsaw that Hyde can wield effectively to cut his enemies to pieces. There seems to be some mystery to the Texas Chainsaw, as enemy dolls tend to freeze out of fear, begin panicking, and then lose all their confidence when they see it. However, this doesn't happen when faced with strong opponents.

Texas Chainsaw Hurricane: After being restored by Closer, the power of his chainsaw changed, besides having a different look, it now has the abilities to create extremely strong forces of wind on whatever surface it cuts. This change in power is a direct result of no longer being powered by Alsyd's magic, but Closer himself.

Closer Alsyd (アルシド・クローサー, Arushido Kurōzā) is Shunpei’s grandfather, he gave Shunpei Hyde on his 7th birthday. He would travel around the world and whenever he dropped by he would tell Shunpei about his travels and sometime show him magic “tricks”. He lives life “like a man” and tries to teach Shunpei that a man decides his own path in life and that as long as he wants to, a man can achieve anything. He is really one of the greatest magician kings to ever live in the world and his little “tricks” are real magic spells that he can handle effortlessly. It seems most of the world's magic users are after his blood so they become the strongest above the rest, but since he has disappeared off the face of the earth all the attacks are now focused on Shunpei. He normally calls Shunpei “Shun my boy”.

Shindou is a soccer star in Shunpei's school, and although almost every girl in the school admires him, his only love is a strange one at that: a black-haired doll named Tomiko, and talks to it as if it was a living object. (Tomiko is later shown to be a magical doll like Hyde.) Behind his graceful look, he is actually a magic-user. His style of fighting is different from the first two magic-users. Instead of hiding and standing from the sidelines, sending his/or magic power for the magical doll to do his/her "dirty work", Shindou and Tomiko instead fight together, therefore increasing the strength of Tomiko. (Hyde explains that the farther away the magic-user is from his magical doll, the less magic power he/she could send to their doll.) Growing up, Shindou's only friend was Tomiko as his rich father early on bought the neighborhood he lived in and forced his friends to move because he did not want Shindou to be friends with those he considers "scum". Despite the battle between Shindou and Shunpei, the two later become allies.[11]

Tomiko is a small doll, and is apparently in some sort of relationship with Shindou. His reason to attack Shunpei is to use the Alsyd's blood within Shunpei to turn Tomiko into a real woman (because Shindou states that no one would accept a relationship with a doll). She states that she loves Shindou, and vice versa, which apparently "creeps" Shunpei out. She is apparently based on a woman of the same name who never married, and has been handed down to each new generation in Shindou's mother's family.

Laugh: None (So far)

Mozanhagu: Tomiko's main ability is her ability to stretch and use her hair as a weapon. Apparently, with Shindou's and Tomiko's "Love", the hair can pierce through anything, even piercing Shunpei's magical barrier. It is even later shown to be absolutely impenetrable; not even Hyde's Texas Chainsaw can cut through it. Hyde and Shunpei defeated them by lighting her hair on fire, thus rendering her ability useless.

Crimson Bride: In chapter 16, it is shown that Tomiko can transform into a real, beautiful woman.[12] In this form, she can stop attacks with a few strands of her hair, as well as being able to use them to wield her hairpins as lethal weapons. But, this comes with a great downfall. As long as Tomiko is in this form, Shindou seems to give her either a great deal of magic to her, or give her his "Life Force", thus turning him into an old, weak, and vulnerable man.

Uryuu Tatsumi (雨竜巽, Tatsumi Uryuu) A girl in Shunpei's class, she is a huge fan of a TV drama with an incredible manly male lead.[13] She at first dislikes Shunpei because he's so cowardly, until they are attacked by a curse user after school when it's their turn to clean the classroom. Tatsumi fell in love with Hyde after the incident, much to Shunpei's shock. But as time passes by, her feelings start to shift towards Shunpei, as seen in chapter 29 when she tries to open up a bit before Shunpei runs off when he sees trouble.[14] It is implied that Tatsumi married Shunpei at the series' ending.

First introduced in chapter nineteen.[15] She has two shades of hair - black and white. She wears a hat with a pumpkin face smile on the side, a one-piece dress, a long trench coat, and black boots.[16] Pacqwa owns a small store in the Unknown Bazaar, and although she displays many items, most of the items she sells get refunded. She started her magic-device store because of her father, who was a world famous magical item seller. As a side note, she apologizes frequently.

Ana

Odd, and easy to stand out, Ana quickly catches the attention of many in her introduction in the series. She comes looking for the power of Closer, but to Shunpei's surprise, she at first believed she would need to eat Shunpei's toenails to gain his power. Shunpei cleared up the misunderstanding, telling her the truth while believing she would not be the kind of person to kill someone else.[17] As a child, Ana was shown to be bullied by other boys constantly because of her height, but quickly became friends with them when she stood up to them with the help of a hippie looking-sort of person named Bosh.[18] He however was killed by yet another unnamed man.[19] Angered by the man's actions, she swears to get stronger to kill him, leading to Ana wanting the power of Closer. Despite being enemies for some time, Ana becomes an ally of Shunpei and company.

Shakka-Shakka Mekki

His name is most likely a play on his maracas that he constantly carries around. Ana activates Shakka-Shakka's power by using her boombox to play different sorts of music. Each CD can activate an ability, which are each named "Represente Azteca: GRADO...". Because of the Spanish numbers at the end of each, it is possible Ana and Shakka-Shakka may have more abilities than the ones listed below.

Magic:

Represente Azteca: Grado Uno, Salita de Musica: Uses the power of music and dancing to control other things such as bugs, and even other magical dolls such as Hyde.[20]

Represente Azteca: Grado Dos: Allows Shakka-Shakka to control the movements of an opponent and make him/her/it move like the doll.[21]

Repenze Aztec: Grado Tres : Allows Shakka-Shakka to dance to bring down the lightning. The attack is most likely very dangerous, however it has a long activation time.[22]

Kazan

A very large man with spiky dreadlocked hair. Called Holy Father by the children, even though he is not a real priest. Growing up, he lived on the streets and stole and fought in order to survive, losing all sense of fear, until one day when he killed a woman's son and was sentenced to death. As his sentence grew closer, Kazan started to become scared of dying and, realizing his victim must have felt the same way, regretted his actions. On the day of his execution, the boy's mother dropped the charges against him and later told him that since he felt remorse, it was better for him to live on instead of die. He fights alongside Desmond, often charging recklessly against the enemy.

Desmond

A traditional Tinplate doll that looks like a small suit or armour with skinny legs, and four eyes. He dislikes noisy crowds and sometimes scolds Kazan for acting reckless.

Magic

Fullmetal Reloaded: Fires projectile springs form Desmond's fingers that bring anything they come into contact with to life and fight for them. This magic is effective because the springs are fired out like a bullet, making them dangerous in their own right. It can even force guns in hand to change direction.

Enemy curse users are those magic users who wish to gain the powers of the Closer bloodline. Most dolls have their own distinctive laugh.

Antonio and Chamokey

The first pair to attack Shunpei, Antonio disguised himself as a delivery man and handed Shunpei the package containing the doll. Chamokey explained why it was trying to kill Shunpei and that he'd be in constant danger for the rest of his life. When, Hyde destroyed Chamokey, it resulted in Antonio driving off a bridge after suffering an array of unlucky circumstances. Chamokey is a monkey with a fedora and two mouths. He's incredibly sadistic and took great pleasure in tormenting Shunpei as he ran through the house but when Hyde came in his confidence was crushed very quickly. In battle he favors anything that can be used to stab or cut, such as a boxcutter.

Laugh: Ukekeke (like the sound a monkey makes)

Hollow Blackness: The doll’s shadow becomes multiple hands which can hold multiple weapons at once which it uses to attack enemies from all sides.

Chilledski and Harawataski

The second to attack, Chilledski is a Russian curse user who wears a walrus skin like a fur coat (even if he complains about Japan's hot weather). Chilledski was struck with appendix problems after his doll was destroyed, he was rushed to a hospital. After that, Hyde and Closer went looking for him (Hyde uses this as a means to stop being ambushed) and convinced him to help (Hyde does something to his face which causes anyone who sees him to laugh uncontrollably which was effective as Chilledski couldn't laugh because of his surgery) to show how many other magic users were out to get Closer (1000 in total). Chilledski after more "convincing" revealed information on 'The Six,' the strongest magic users out of the rest moving in to attack. Harawataski is a skull jack-in-the-box doll. He says he loves to eat humans' lustful desires. His weapons are a pair of tongs and a small crowbar. His core is a coin with a star on it.

Laugh: Vahyahaha

Death House: it allows Harawataski to appear (with party confetti) from any closed opening (a door, a desk drawer, windows, etc.). It also stops anyone from entering or leaving, effectively trapping anyone in the room he has taken over. Breaking the doll's concentration can temporarily stop the spell.

Bugs and Seyabdi

The fourth team to attack Shunpei. A duo who attack Shunpei after school, Bugs takes control on the school's lights in order to give his doll the advantage. After failing to take Shunpei's life, Bugs is thrown in jail for assaulting a janitor and with Seyabdi destroyed he started feeling pain whenever someone steps on his shadow. Seyabdi is a shadow puppet with a strange head that uses a knife in combat to strike the finishing blow.

Bloody Wayang: An ability that allows Seyabdi to hurt people by attacking their shadows.

Enrique, Kefman and Michellan

A young boy whose mother is ill and was led by the Watchman into believing that with Closer's power he'd be able to heal his mother. Enrique is the only magician thus far to control two Curse Dolls at once. After both his dolls are destroyed, he nearly falls off the building he was standing on but was saved by Shunpei at the last second; in regret and gratitude, he informs Shunpei and Hyde about the Watchman. Kefman is a marionette that looks like a rather sinister clown with four arms, while Michelan is a human-sized puppet with a top hat, who first masquerades as the magician.

Massacre Marionette: Kefman's magic, this allows him to manipulate his marionette strings and use them to cut through just about anything with the only exception being Tomiko's hair whilst she's in Crimson Bride mode.

Massacre Puppet: Michelan's magic, this allows him to knows all offensive and defensive martial arts disciplines, including but not limited to boxing, kung fu, karate, and combat SAMBO.

Chi-Chi and Wamien

A duo who attack Shunpei whilst he was training to use his newly acquired magical device. Chi-Chi is an overweight man who loves ramen. He wears a Chinese shirt and small dark glasses. He has a curly mustache and tattoos on his head that resemble three waves. Wamien is a small, frog-like creature with a porcelain bowl on his head but transforms into a large, muscular reptilian creature when using his magic. Chi-Chi was later badly scalded by hot ramen after, Wamien's subsequent defeat.

Laugh: Nuaahaha

Heaven's Bowl: Wamien's magic lies in the porcelain bowl on top of his head. When the bowl is filled with hot water he transforms into a hulking giant for three minutes. When in this form he gains Herculean levels of strength which allow him to pick up and throw almost anything, from a simple park bench to an entire bathroom building.

Abumiya and Lancy

A duo seeking to destroy the church where the children are because of Feng Shui. Abumiya dresses in a very flamboyant business suit and has one half of the yin-yang symbol tattooed on each of his eyes. He's extremely sadistic as shown in how happily he lists all the morbid things he could do with his doll's magic. However, underneath all his evil, Abumiya is a true coward and doesn't know how to deal with those that stand up to him and easily cracking under the pressure. When his doll is destroyed, he gets buried under the garbage in the junkyard. Lancy is a doll that looks like a jiang-shi that floats and has two different halves on his body. The normal half will tell his opponent's good luck and lucky item, while at the same time the other half that looks like a demonic corpse will tell them their bad luck and unlucky item.

Laugh:Hehehehe

Ebony Chance: Once his eight-sided mirror focuses on an innocent's body then whatever body part is reflected is snapped when the doll rolls the die. However, the greatest weakness in this magic comes from the fact that it doesn't work on other magicians.

President Schubert and Hyper Toy

The president of a world famous toy company. He is a powerful man who hired 100 magicians to activate his magic. As shown, he doesn't care what it takes to do something as long as it is done. This is shown when he was warned about the dangers the army of toys could have on other people; he said he didn't care as long as the magicians killed Closer. He also throws tantrums like a child whenever he doesn't get what he wants. Hyper Toy is unique from other curse dolls in that it isn't just one doll like all the others but instead Schubert's entire toy store. However, Schubert's butler warned that using the entire store would only give him minimum control over the dolls and that they'd attack anyone near them. After all the toys are destroyed by the combined efforts of Shindou, Ana, and Kazan the hired magicians place all their power into one doll, a deer costume that gave Schubert incredible strength and speed. After Hyde used his new magic powers to beat him twice, Schubert went insane with power and proceeded to eat the mages who're powering his doll to increase his own strength. When Closer used his new magical tool on him to make illusions, it was revealed that he made toys not for wealth but to see the happy faces of children. After being stunned and filled with regret upon remembering his past, Hyde then used his chainsaw to destroy the doll's core reducing, Schubert to an old man with the mind of a newborn child and removing all evil from his heart.

The Watcher in the Window

The Watchern is a mysterious magic user who ignited the race to harm Shunpei. He can appears in a floating window which disappears as mysteriously as it appears. He also has a keen grasp on the human psyche, as he manipulated a boy into trying to kill Closer, and most of the wizards in general by lying and telling them that eating his heart would make them invincible. Due to his tactics, Hyde initially believes the Watcher has a personal grudge against the Closer family, only for this to be refuted when The Watcher appears before them after the people he tricked into fighting Closer failed. He reveals that he has no grudge against the family and has actually grown to like Shunpei, but wishes to destroy humanity by getting his hands on Resentment, a gigantic egg that is the oldest magical device, created after a series of coincidences and that's been absorbing the negative emotions of humanity for thousands of years. Alsyd Closer had somehow prevented him from getting it, and so Watchman has been attacking Shunpei to lure him out. He was once a Doctor who lost his family when a shamanistic tribe he'd been treating sacrificed them to appease their gods, driving him mad with grief. In a strange twist of fate, it is revealed that The Watchman himself is 'Detox', the very Magical Device needed to destroy Resentment.

Alshev and Pterobone

One of the Watcher's allies that willingly wants Resentment to be unleashed. He has a massive ego and fancies himself as a genius and an inventor (e.g. making a toothpaste sandwich for people to eat and clean their teeth at the same time). Pterobone is a living fossil that seems to combine aspects of a triceratops, a pterosaur, and a stegosaur. Aside from its magic, it can fly and split itself into its bones to create multiple attack chances. Pterobone is destroyed by Hyde, and because of the curse backlash, all of the joints in Alshev's body are dislocated and he is sent to the emergency room.

Jurassic Panic: Any living thing or curse doll Pterobone so much as scratches begins to ossify. After a minute has passed, the targets are left as statues with images of other fossils embedded on them. The effect is undone once Pterobone is destroyed.

Asmodai

Initially presented as the unnamed magician who killed Bosh (Ana's mentor).[19] He was later revealed as one of the Watcher's allies searching to destroy the device that can cancel out Resentment.[23] His past is discussed in a story told to the readers by the Watcher: There were five people trapped in a collapsed tunnel on an American highway, one of them including a pregnant woman. As rescuers worked, one by one the people were killed by a series of lethal misfortunes, until not one survived. However, the fallen rock that killed the pregnant woman left the child unharmed, and it was able to be saved. The deaths were all in fact caused by the unborn Asmodai, who could hear the survivors outside the womb counting off how many survivors were left with each accident and was furious he was never included in the count. He used his magic from within the womb to curse them all to death, and later grew to be the depraved killer he is now. His only motive for aiding the Watcher is his desire to see Resentment destroy the world. He and Ronove are sent to stop Shunpei and company from destroying Resentment, he fights Ana and Kazan in a zoo where he's magic is at its most powerful. Whilst there he overpowers them and talks about how he wishes to devour Resentment because the end of the world wouldn't be as fun if he wasn't the one causing it.

Natural Born Killer: Asmodai does not use a doll to fight his battles, instead he consumes the flesh of animals to take on their abilities (such as generating tentacles to ensnare foes, growing large wings to fly around, transforming his arm into a gorilla's for more powerful strikes, turning his eyes into that of a chameleon to get a better look at his surroundings, and giving himself the legs of a cheetah to dodge lighting, etc), but perhaps the most terrifying aspect of his kind of magic is that he can also use it to copy the abilities of other sorcerers.

Ronove

A woman who serves as one of the Watcher's allies out to destroy the device that can cancel out Resentment.[23] Her past is discussed in a story told to the readers by the Watcher: as a child, she was the sole survivor of a fire that broke out and killed all the members of a notorious cult in the southern United States. She was never taught anything about the world around her, and as such lacked the skills to express herself or communicate with others. Adopted by a kindly couple, she was still unable to express herself until she seemed to take an interest in flowers. At the suggestion of her adoptive mother, she spent day after day taking flowers to her room to raise them, but otherwise never left her room. When her adoptive mother went to check on her one day, she found out the girl's secret: she had only been taking the plants to her room to starve them off and watch them die. Appearing to take ecstasy in watching things die, she later moved on to animals, and then humans. Now as an adult, she has a lustful obsession with death and wants Resentment to activate so she can watch death on a global scale. She and Asmodai are sent to stop Shunpei and company from destroying Resentment, she fights against both Shunpei and Shindou in the hospital but quickly proves to be far too powerful for them to defeat. However, they manage to best her by splashing her wax body with caustic soda and alcohol, turning her into a giant soap statue.

House of Wax: Much like Asmodai, Ronove uses magic herself instead of sending a doll to fight for her. Using her magic, Ronove can make anything she touches into wax, being able to make people into wax statues with just a kiss, and can even turn her own body into wax to regenerate from things like fire. She can also increase the temperature of wax, changing it into gas and causing it to burst into flames.

"Punch"

A stuffed panda in the mold of Hyde, but with primitive intelligence. He is briefly introduced during the battle between Closer and The Watcher in the Window as a man framed for spying during the early 1880s, having his family killed in front of his eyes. As he was a sorcerer, he gave life to a stuffed panda by giving his beating heart to the toy as its core so as to avenge his family. Even though he (known as Jack the Ripper) successfully avenged his family, he still murders sorcerers and people for the Watcher in the Window. During his first appearance, he has multiple tentacles that serves as hands. Each of them holds a small scissor, with six in total. He cuts wildly and shrieks, "CUT!CUT!I WANT TO CUT THINGS!" everywhere he goes. As he does so, he wrecks the whole school. He attacks Hyde with his "Murder Ride Show" curse. In the following events some scissors begin to merge into a chainsaw-scissor, and one is destroyed by two of Hyde's curse attack, released from both Closer and Hyde. After several time lapses, he and Hyde's power remain equal, but he is destroyed by Hyde's overpowering final attack. Just as he looks dead, his flying severed top third cuts Hyde into uneven thirds, then flops down dead on the smoking pavement of the building, with a last word of "CUT!".

Shunpei's Mother

She appears a few times and doesn’t seem to be at all scared of Hyde moving by himself. She seems to know about Shunpei’s grandfather being a magician, and is currently un-named.

Kanna

Kanna is one of the children that Kazan takes care of. She affectionately calls him Holy Father like the rest of the children. She meet Shupei and Tatsumi when they saved her from being abducted and used as a bargaining chip against Kazan and the other children. She is later made a victim of Ebony Chance.

Marco

Marco was a young boy who was Hyde's original owner. He died in a fire saving Hyde.